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Roughly $12.2 trillion in assets are benchmarked against Russell’s U.S. indexes.The additions appear to mark the first Russell index inclusions for crypto treasury companies with non-bitcoin digital assets.

Crypto treasury firms Sharplink and Forward Industries will both be included in the Russell 2000 and 3000 indexes at the end of June.

Brad Levy, CEO of ThetaRay, says compliance teams routinely lose visibility at blockchain bridges, the point where assets move between different chains.ThetaRay’s AI flagged a UK retail customer declared as a packer who received over £134,000 from 40 counterparties before executing regular crypto purchases.Levy says any bank with a fiat-to-crypto blind spot will face regulators treating it as a governance failure within the next 12 months.

Coinbase has resumed trading after suspending order matching and moving markets into “Cancel Only” and auction modes for several hours during an AWS-related disruption.The exchange had temporarily disabled market and limit orders, while Solana and ALEO transfers experienced delays before it began phased trading restoration.

The two companies will jointly set up and run Solana validator servers across APAC, anchored by Pacific Backbone, Solana Company’s institutional infrastructure network.They also want to develop Solana staking products based on JitoSOL for larger financial firms like asset and wealth managers based in Asia.

DFlow’s Solana-based infrastructure trading platform should help support “high-volume trading” and “agent-driven financial applications,” says MoonPay CEO.MoonPay acquired the company by paying $100 million in stock, according to Fortune.

Pay.sh provides a way for AI bots to discover, access and pay for API usage using stablecoins on Solana, without having to create an account or pay for a subscription from online service providers.Agents can access Solana wallets and pay using stablecoins.

Solana’s new service lets AI agents pay for Google Cloud and community APIs on a per-request basis, bypassing traditional accounts.

SOL Strategies said it has entered a definitive agreement to buy HoudiniSwap for $18 million.The acquisition is expected to create a new revenue stream and make SOL Strategies less reliant on market cycles.

Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury vehicle DeFi Development Corp has launched a $200 million at-the-market (ATM) equity program to fund further SOL accumulation.The company says proceeds will primarily support its Solana reserve strategy and that it will only issue shares when doing so is “accretive” to the value of each shareholder’s SOL holdings.DeFi Development has previously used equity raises to scale its SOL treasury toward a long-term target of one SOL per share by 2028.

Western Union launched USDPT on Solana, adding regulated stablecoin settlement to its global payments network.Anchorage Digital issued USDPT, while Western Union plans exchange access and future consumer stablecoin services.SOL traded near $86 as traders watched the $88 to $90 breakout resistance zone.

Exponent, a Solana-based yield exchange, has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Multicoin Capital.The platform plans to launch an updated version next month to expand beyond rate trading into broader yield management, including strategy vaults.

On Wednesday, the committee voted 13 to 11 to advance Kevin Warsh, splitting along party lines.Warsh had spoken a few times about crypto, calling bitcoin an “important asset that can help inform policymakers.”Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who had previously said he would withhold support for Warsh until the investigation concluded, ultimately voted in favor of the nomination following the DOJ’s decision.

Squads, known for its Solana-based multisig protocol, has raised $18 million in new funding to scale its stablecoin platform Altitude.Solana Ventures led the strategic funding round as Squads bets that “businesses are better off running on stablecoins than on banks.”

Anza and Firedancer added early Falcon versions to prepare Solana for possible future quantum attacks.Jump Crypto said Falcon-512 has the smallest signature among selected NIST post-quantum standards.The teams said Falcon can protect Solana without causing major network performance issues.

a16z crypto’s report, “The New Stack of Global Finance: The Stablecoin Edition,” argues that stablecoins have evolved from niche trading tools into a global settlement layer and “banking‑as‑a‑service” stack for programmable dollars.The paper slices today’s chains into general‑purpose, payment‑specific, and institutional networks, all increasingly tethered by stablecoins as the common settlement asset, from consumer wallets to permissioned bank rails.a16z says payments are only “the first act,” predicting large‑scale stablecoin issuance will support a parallel on‑chain credit system and extend US dollar reach into emerging markets via any internet‑connected wallet.